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Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies book cover

1st Edition

Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Edited By Katharine D. Scherff, Lane J. Sobehrad Copyright 2023
174 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies. Divided into five parts, the book examines how people, medieval and modern, engage with medieval media and technology through an exploration of the theory underpinning audience interactions with historical materials in the past and the real-world... Read more

Introduction Media Technologies and the Digital Humanities 

Katharine D. Scherff and Lane J. Sobehrad

Part I: Text or Tool? - Beyond the Narrative

1. From Audits to Confessionals: The Influence of Accounting Technology on Medieval Penitential Pedagogy

Nancy Haijing Jiang

2. As Nimble as The Pen of a Scribe The Mediating Tongue in Aquinas’s Commentary On The Psalms

Albert Marie Surmanski

Part II: Interpretive Technologies - Viewing Culture and Society

3. Painted, Printed, and Digitized, the Commemorative Images for the British “Worthies”

Anne Betty Weinshenker

4. Maps, Views, and Chorographies: An Examination of the Depiction of Place and the Representation of Architecture in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Brittany Forniotis

Part III: Proximity - The Earthly and Divine Spheres

5. Ars combinatoria Deciphering the Earthly and the Divine in the Medieval World and Beyond

Beatrice Bottomley and Arianna Dalla Costa

6. "It’s Like I’m Actually there!": Jumbotrons, Liveness, and the Corpus Christi

Katharine D Scherff

Part IV: Teaching "Tools" and Accessibility

7. Simulating the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art Market in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

Margaret Mansfield

8. The Virtual Renaissanc: Adopting Virtual Reality to Transform How Art History is Taught

Eric R. Hupe and Caitlyn Carr

Part V: Digital Viewing and Reflections

9. Reflections Relating Medieval Modes to Modern Multimodal Literacies in the Digital Humanities

Lane J. Sobehrad and Susan J. Sobehrad

Biography

Katharine D. Scherff is Postdoc Lecturer and teaches for the School of Art and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University.

Lane J. Sobehrad is Coordinator of Research and Innovation for Lubbock ISD.

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